[@Shoryu Magami] [@BrokenPromise]

Ah, you're...wait, your profile says...I don't know how I turned 3 into 5, but whatever.  You're actually a couple years older than I initially thought.  ^.^;;

Yeah, ADHD was actually my first diagnosis.  Though I'm not sure why anti-hyper drugs would help someone if they're not...y'know, hyper.  Not learning is different from not paying attention, but I guess I'm expecting loonies to make sense, so... ^.^;;

Puberty was /awful/ for me, and while I did have a lot of the stuff hit a bit later, between my hormones and the various meds (not ritalin at that point, but I was on some group of things), I was just a chemical melting pot, and actually nearly destroyed my life and the lives of my family.  NOt in the suicidal sense, either.

People never commented much on my parents, but I got the "you're brilliant" stuff and "thirteen going on thirty", etc a /lot/.  Straight A+s, 99th percentile on all standardized tests, all the advanced classes, and so on.  In fact, I met my first really close friend, who I am still close to after almost twenty years and living two states over and not talking all that much when we're not actually together, I met her at the award ceremony for some four-hour standardized test in second grade, and I don't think it was one the school required.  It might have been for some gifted program, since I think TAG class started in second or third grade, but I can't be sure.  I was first for our age group, she was third (second was a guy so he didn't count).  One of the biggest regrets I have, when I actually think about it, is that I was always told I could do anything, and that I had the brains to be amazing, and now...I'm not even average.  I'm still bright, but the vague dreams I had of changing the world, making some amazing discovery or revolutionizing some field, those are almost certainly never going to happen.   And maybe they wouldn't have anyhow, but I feel that I never got a chance to try.  I mean, I didn't know what field I was going to go into, but I knew I wanted to go to college and earn a doctorate, yet I've never even taken a college course save for AP highschool stuff.  It sounds like you didn't get a chance to try either, and that really, /really/ sucks.  *hug*